Taken in the morning on my last Snowy Owl session of the season.

This Snowy Owl bobs and weaves his body and head as it tries to look past me to focus on some distant object. In this case, it was another Snowy in the same field over 1 kilometre away!

The Snowy then suddenly tookoff to escort and chase away the other from his territory. The Snowy then landed at the edge of his territory to stand guard for a long period of time against his intruder.

Before posting this photo, a friend remarked that there were five distinct neat layers of foreground and background: snow, vegetation, trees, mountain and sky.

Canon 5D Mark III with my 500L f4 lens offhand @ 1/1000, f13, ISO 400.

Cheers,


Mike